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porpoise

small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae
Taxon taxon Q10867
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Summary

porpoise is a taxon[1]. porpoise ranks in the top 0.27% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,272 views/month, #533 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Delphinoidea[4]
  • Taxon name: Phocoenidae[5]
  • Commons category: Phocoenidae[6]
  • Taxonomic type: Phocoena[7]
  • Start time: -15970000-00-00T00:00:00Z[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Porpoises[9]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[10]
  • Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11], New International Encyclopedia[12]
  • Taxon common name: Porpoises[13], Pyöriäiset[14], พอร์พอยส์[15], nisefamilien[16], rjave pliskavke[17]
  • Different from: dolphin[18]
  • Permanent duplicated item: Q25681647[19]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20]

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Identifiers

porpoise's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 41437[21]. porpoise's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9740[22]. porpoise's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 7653[23]. porpoise's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 9361[24]. porpoise's ITIS TSN is recorded as 552307[25].

Why It Matters

porpoise has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] porpoise is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Related Entities

Plutarch

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [22] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [25] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [23] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [24] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → porpoises
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: porpoises, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289950875|porpoises (#289950875)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Delphinoidea
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Different from → dolphin
    Instance of → —
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 18431, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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